Senior Content Creator (Gaming)

The role

Who We Are

We Are Social is a global socially-led creative agency with unrivalled social media expertise. With 1,300 people in 19 offices spanning four continents, we deliver a global perspective to our clients in a time when social media is shaping culture.

We’re proud to be a multi award-winning agency, with Cannes Lions, One Show, Webby and Shorty Awards, to name but a few. Our most recent work has seen us help Pepsi, Meta and Adidas deliver some of their biggest and most innovative campaigns to date, from breaking into the metaverse to smashing records on TikTok. 

As well as creating for clients, we help educate the wider industry. Our Instagram publication The Feed tracks culture at the speed of social. 6,500 people registered or tuned into our events last year, and our reports garnered more than 20 million views.

The Opportunity 

Are you a gaming-obsessed, TikTok-native Senior Content Creator with a passion for all things social? 

Do you have experience as a Content Creator with in an agency environment?

Do you dream of turning your love for gaming culture into a career? 

We Are looking for a highly skilled Senior Content Creator to join our team and lead the day-to-day creative output for Activision Blizzard, home to some of the world’s most iconic gaming titles, including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo.  You will have a deep understanding of gaming content and communities across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and beyond.

You will have previously crafted ideas to create content for audiences and be able to quickly film TikToks on an iPhone and gimbal, but you’ll also need to have a good grasp of Adobe Suite. So if you need to make a simple graphic or quickly edit event footage in Premier it will be no bother. 

It is essential that you live and breath the gaming world.

Requirements

What You’ll Have Delivered Elsewhere

• Created fun, engaging content for a global gaming audience that has led to viral moments.
• Managed daily content creation across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to ensure a seamless delivery of social content with little to no errors.
• Ideated and executed creative concepts that resonate with gamers and have led to authentic community engagement.
• Transformed game clips and trailers into captivating social posts in a timely manner and with little to no amendments needed from the manager/client.
• Stayed ahead of gaming, industry, and social trends and can provide an example of where you have done so.
• Elevated the social presence of legendary gaming franchises and can showcase these within a portfolio or website.
• Contributed to creative brainstorms and content calendars where your ideas have been adapted and led to success
• Supported a Senior Social Media Manager with insights and ideation
• Guided and mentored Content Creators to help them develop their craft skills

What Else Are We Looking For?

• Experience establishing yourself as the go-to person on the account 
• Always take full accountability for your results/deliverables
• Being solutions-driven and being confident in vocalising them 
• Experience minimising the need for clients/stakeholders to escalate issues above me or to require unnecessary input from my colleagues
• Collaborate with designers and videographers to produce exceptional video content
• Contribute to the daily newsroom within the department
• Comfortable in front of a camera as and when required

Benefits

Our Culture and the Nice Stuff

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion runs in the water here at We Are Social. We are transparent about the changes that are needed, we are focused on making real strides, both internally and within the industry and we strive to truly be a workplace that represents, supports and advocates for ALL. Our Charter for Change in the UK  can be found here which details our focus areas across People, Work and Culture in 2023.

Inclusion at every level is crucial to creative innovation and success, and we want to create a workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging. We welcome and encourage talent from ALL backgrounds and are committed to creating a representative team that can deliver creative excellence. If you require any support, adjustments or accommodations for any reason whatsoever during the recruitment process, please let us know via [email protected]

So let’s get to the good stuff,  we offer all those things you would naturally expect; 25 days holiday, pension scheme & life assurance. But what we love most is connection, so we have our WAS Passport and Work From Anywhere schemes which allow you to truly connect to colleagues all over the world! 

But what’s life around here really like day-to-day? Well, we ask our people regularly what they think about us/their role and here are some of the most common things they say:

• I value my manager we have a good relationship
• We love to ‘get social’ with the people I work with
• Trusted to get on with the job, without ‘micro-management’!

If this all sounds like the place you have been waiting to find then apply now! What are you waiting for?